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name: Daniel Torres
position: D height: 5-11 weight:158 Birthdate: October 14, 1977 Hometown: Moravia, Costa Rica last club: Bryne FK (Norway) |
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| Regular Season Stats | full bio l year-by-year stats l video highlights |
| year | club | gp | gs | min | g | a | sht | sog | fc | fs | c | ej |
| 2009 | FC Dallas | 15 | 8 | 886 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Career | 66 | 56 | 5,159 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 76 | 60 | 10 | 2 | |
Acquired
Signed on January 27, 2009.
Professional
2008: Played in 14 games, with nine starts at Bryne FK of Norway's First Division.2007: Appeared in 10 games, making nine starts, before transferring to Bryne FK.
2006: Started the first 16 games of the 2006 season for RSL, logging 1,363 minutes, before suffering season ending foot injury on 8/14 at New England.
2005: Signed with Tromsø IL of the Norwegian Premier League for a portion of the season before transferring to Bodens BK of the Swedish Superettan…With Bodens Torres played in 11 games from the start and was a five time "Player of the Match" recipient. 2003-2004: Transferred back to his former team, Club Deportivo Saprissa, after spending two and a half seasons in MLS with the Columbus Crew … Helped Saprissa to its 24th crown in the Costa Rican First Division.
2003: Appeared in eight games for CLB (six starts) … Missed one game between 06/07 and 07/05 before rejoining his former team, Club Deportiva Saprissa, for its 2003-2004 season.
2002: Appeared in 25 matches (23 starts) for The Crew … Made regular season debut on 3/23 vs. CHI … Picked up first career MLS point (GWA) on 6/12 at NE … Appeared in four of Crew's five postseason matches, including two starting nods … Appeared in three matches in The Crew's run to the Open Cup title, including the 1-0 Final win vs. LA on 10/24.
2001: Signed with CLB on 9/08/01, a day before the final game of the regular season … Made his Crew debut in the quarterfinal series at SJ on 9/26, playing final 18 minutes of game two loss.
1996-2001: Graduated to the first team of Club Deportivo Saprissa, the premiere team in the Costa Rican top division, at the age of 19 … Joined Saprissa's youth program as a seven-year-old and ultimately spent his first five professional seasons with its senior team, winning back-to-back league championships in 1997-98 and 1998-99 … Played against future team when Saprissa took on Columbus Crew in the quarterfinals of the FC Giants Cup in 2001.
International
A regular in the Ticos' national team youth system, with appearances at the U-17, U-20 and U-23 levels … Participated in CONCACAF Region U-20 World Cup Qualifiers in 1996 and in the FIFA U-20 World Cup - Malaysia in 1997 … Earned a bronze medal with the U-23's at the Central American Cup … Helped the U-23s to a third-place finish in the Pan American Games in 1999 … Was a member of the U-23 Olympic Qualifying team in 2000.
Personal
The son of Yadira Gonzalez and Jose Torres and has two older brothers, Jose and Raul...Hails from Moravia, Costa Rica, a suburb of the capital city of San Jose...While playing for the Columbus Crew (2001-2003), lived with the family of LeAnn and Carl Clark, an arrangement which was set up by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes...Enjoys reading the Bible and surfing the Web in his free time…Married to Alexandra Sanchez and the couple have a daughter named Larissa.
